Meanwhile, the smallest species, the pink fairy armadillo, weighs up to 8 ounces and measures up to 5 inches from head to tail. Appearance: In Spanish, the word armadillo means “little armored ...

McElroy’s bullet hit the armadillo but kept going, ricocheting off the animal’s hard, leathery shell. It hit a fence, went through the back door of his mother-in-law’s mobile home, pierced ...

The three nine-banded armadillo pups aren't the only recent new arrivals at the zoo. Hondo, an 8-year-old African lion from the Idaho Falls Zoo, is making a home in Pittsburgh. The hope is that he ...

The nine-banded armadillo, which is native to Central and South America, has been migrating north for decades as average temperatures rise. And because of the mild winter Kansas City just had, it ...

2017: 9 2018: 18 2019: 4 202: 36 2021: 27 2022: 26 2023: 26 2024 (as of Aug. 20): 31 Iowans who spot an armadillo can report the information to Coffey at [email protected] requests only ...